<t> I really don't think it has anything to do with actions taken in-game. For instance, I just did this:<br/>
1. Load an old save with no problems<br/>
2. Make 3 random attacks and a random movement<br/>
3. Save the game in a new test save with no problems<br/>
4. Quit to the main menu and ...

The sav files are in Z:\Steam\steamapps\common\Gary Grigsby's War in the East\Dat\save

For Steam preferences, I'm set to auto-update but opted out of the beta. My game's current version is 1.11.03, which should be the same version that all these saves were started on.

<t> I'll make sure to do a run of memtest at some point, but yeah it's really strange. The game still works perfectly fine on my laptop, even playing the exact same saves that break on my desktop, so it's clearly an issue specific to our computers. And I have no idea what particular actions would ...

This is very similar to my experience with the issue, if it doesn't happen immediately upon loading it tends to happen when trying to save after a seemingly random type and number of actions.

<t> Can't speak for him but I have three different hard drives on my computer, neither Steam nor WitE are installed on my C drive, and my main Steam location is on a different hard drive from the one where WitE is installed. That said, my setup has always been like this and it played fine for about ...

Alright nope, that also didn't do it. Had a couple of sessions where it worked, but once again when I tried to save a turn I had played for a while it crashed and I lost that effort. What else is worth trying?

Making Steam also run as administrator might have done it for me. Hopefully I don't end up bumping this thread again. Thanks!

I'm just gonna bump this again, and if I don't get a response in another day or two I'll make a new thread because this one seems to have been abandoned since I falsely stated the issue was fixed. Sorry about that.

<t> Bumping this again because the issue came back, even when running it as an administrator. Weirdly enough it worked fine for a bit when running as an admin, but it stopped working properly again. These are all the different ways I've seen in which I get the error posted above and the game crashes ...

<t> My game is installed through Steam, and my Steam library isn't located in Program Files, but it's never been an issue in the past and this only came up a couple of days ago. I'm not sure how to run a Steam game as an administrator, I'll get back to you on that.<br/>
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Edit: Holy crap that ...

<t> I turned off my anti-virus and VPN and I still got the same error the moment I tried to load a save. In fact the circumstances that trigger the error have changed as well. Now it appears to occur 100% of the time when I try to load a save file, so at this point the game is unplayable for me ...

<r> I'm running into an issue where about 50% of the time when I try to interact with my save games, I get an error that crashes my game and either prevents me from saving or corrupts the file I was attempting to save to. Sometimes it happens when I just press the save game button to open the menu ...